A toucan proved its no simple bird brain after managing to take a selfie on a mobile phone.

Captured on the front facing camera of a Samsung S4, the hilarious image shows the cheeky bird peering curiously down at the screen.

Owner, Brock AfentuL, 22, from Princeton Louisiana, discovered the playful picture after leaving the baby bird with his phone.

In just the few minutes he was away, the 10-week-old toucan somehow managed to activate the phones camera feature and take a snap shot by picking at it with its bill and feet.

Animal selfies are becoming increasingly common.

Just months before it was reported an eagle which stole a video camera and took it for a 70-mile flight captured the most spectacular selfie and footage of Australia's north west region.

The motion-sensor camera recorded the bird's flapping wings, both in sound and vision, the crevasses it flew through, the desert it crossed and the funny moments when it landed and began pecking at the device.

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